Music 101 Exam 3 Harker Questions and
Answers
String Quartet in G Major, Op. 33, No. 5, 1st Movement - Answer-Haydn
Staccato
Jaunty Motive
Sonata form
Exposition: jaunty motive, downward scales, vacillating motive, jaunty motive in
imitation. Home key -> modulates -> new key
Development: minor major alternating, imitation and fragmentation
Recapitulation: home key, coda
String Quartet in G Major, Op. 33, No. 5, 2nd Movement - Answer-Haydn
Ternary form
Minor Mode
Instrumental "aria"
-Soloist: first violin
Periodic Melody
3 layered accompaniment
A: x 1st phrase (1st violin: impassioned melody)
x' 2nd phrase
y 3rd phrase
cadence
"gloomy" extension
B x" begins as before, then modulates to major, continues in heightened emotional
style, chromatic rise to return of A
A' x"' Minor - restates melody w/ heavy ornamentation
soloist plays cadenza
cadence
"gloomy" extension
String Quartet in G Major, Op. 33, No. 5, 3rd Movement - Answer-Haydn
Minuet and trio
Scherzo (Joke)
Syncopation
Big rest, soft resolution
Triple w/ syncopations
Haydn's minuet and trio:
A (Minuet, rounded binary, aaba'ba'), B (Trio, rounded binary, ccdc'dc'), A (Minuet,
rounded binary, aba')
String Quartet in G Major, Op. 33, No. 5, 4th Movement - Answer-Haydn
Theme and Variations
Beginning: compound meter - 6/8
, Periodic melody
x, cadence, x', cadence
Theme - binary form: aabb
First violin plays melody, rest accompany with dance rhythms or running scales
Coda: fragments of melody passed around all instruments; last phrase: f-p-f-p-pp-f
Don Giovanni Act 1, scene 1 - Aria: "Notte e giorno faticar" - Leporello - Answer-Mozart
Simple, repetitive tune - servant's music in beginning
I want to be the gentleman - nobleman's music - melody, conjunct, legato, sounds more
sophisticated
Don Giovanni Act 1, scene 1 - Trio: Death of the Commendatore - Answer-Mozart
Part 1 - noble music, leperello servant music - back and forth
Part 2 - commendatore - bass (older, authoritative), DG - baritone (greater youth,
charisma), Leporello - servant
Part 3 - C - panting, breathless, DG - legato, conjunct (a touch, perhaps, of pity), Lep -
nervous, dotted rhythms
Don Giovanni Act 1, scene 9 - Duet: "La ci darem la mano" - Don Giovanni and Zerlina -
Answer-Mozart
Form: AABABC
Dramatic characterization: portrayal of seduction
-They alternate stanzas (AA)
-They alternate individual lines (getting closer) (BAB)
-They sing together (in each other's arms) (C)
-"Innocent love" - sinister minor coloring in orchestra
Don Giovanni Act 1, Finale - Answer-Mozart
Imbroglio
Part 1: "Viva la liberta!"
- Quintet: DG, Lep, DA, DE, DO
Part 2: The Dance (key change)
-Sextet: DG, Lep, DA, DE, DO, Masetto
-Three dances: Minuet, Contradanse, Deutscher (overlap)
Part 3: Zerlina in Trouble
- Septet: DG, Lep, DA, DE, DO, Masetto, Zerlina (key change)
- Zerlina screams
Part 4: Don Giovanni exposed (key change)
-Septet
-DG tries to blame it on Lep, they don't buy it
Part 5: Don Giovanni makes his escape
-Septet
-DA, DE, Zer, DO, Mas - Tremble you criminal
-Lep - grudging respect for DG
-DG - same as Lep but about himself, escapes